we cant be certain until minecraft tells us (if they do) but im thinking its either minecraft revamping its servers or possibly an overload of some kind, but im not an expert on these types of things so don't quote me hope it gets fixed soon

It's happening to everybody. Thank God this is a Minecraft problem. If you want to know Minecraft's status, go to www.spoutcraft.org (I am NOT advertising) and go to the bottom of the page. You will see different minecraft statuses at the right hand corner.

It's happening to everybody. Thank God this is a Minecraft problem. If you want to know Minecraft's status, go to www.spoutcraft.org (I am NOT advertising) and go to the bottom of the page. You will see different minecraft statuses at the right hand corner.

Has this been happening to other people? It has been happening SOOOOO much right now its so annoying! I contacted 3 other friends and only 1 other said its also been happening to them! Help? Because I check and it says everything is online. But I still can't connect.

I've noticed that for the past 2 hours or so, I've been having issues with session.minecraft.net. Sometimes my client can't get a proper response from the site, in which case it gives me a 500 error. Occasionally my client will get through to session.minecraft.net, but then the server can't and it throws

To the console. Rarely I've been able to get into the server just fine. From toying around with session.minecraft.net, it appears to be up and down, often throwing 505 errors for 2 seconds, then giving me normal answers the next 2 seconds. This happening to anyone else?

EDIT: Oh and also when the server can't connect to session.minecraft.net and throws that error, it sends "Failed to verify username! [internal error java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://session.minecraft.net/game/checkserver.jsp?user=AgentKid&serverId=*******************]" to the client, which is too long of a message for it to handle causing it to throw another error.